1.Grafting and budding
>It is the most commonly referred to artificial, vegetative method of plant propagation.
>Parts of plants are joined together with the intention of making them unite and continue growing as one plant.
>A grafted plant is a composite of parts derived from two or more plants.
>Grafting generally applies to the dicots and to the gymnosperms because of the presence of a continuous vascular cambium between the xylem and the phloem.
>It involves two parts: rootstock/understock and scion.
>Scion can have several buds, but where it is one, it is known as budding
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